Ernest Hemingway - Yeah, you heard me

[Rastafari]

Ernest Hemingway is the the best author ever, and he had connections too. He was pretty involved with Castro even before the revolution, and he had his shit together (even in 1963!).

[praxis1966]

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm with you all the way Rasta. Can't say he's the best author ever, as far as radicals of the Lost Generation era, I vote for Stienbeck. But Hemingway was the fuckin man.

[Sensitive]

Yep, Ernest Hemingway was pretty good.

[sin miedo]

Fo-rizzle. Hemingway is the shiznit. Seriously, I love For Whom the Bell Tolls.

[Sabocat]

I'm a huge Hemingway guy. If you haven't been to Hemingway's house in Key West Florida, I encourage you to make the pilgrimage. It's special. You can almost sense the man in his writing room.

My favorite still has to be "To Have and Have Not"
My favorite short has to be "Snows of Killimanjaro"

[Dirty Commie]

Hemingway is frikin' great, I love the Old Man and the Sea, Snows of Kilimanjaro, evry word he wrote was amazing, even Castro loves his work.

Hence 'Marina Hemingway'

[Danton]

Never mind the house in the keys,

Get down to the Floridita in old Havana and sip on a Mojito jus like old Papa.

His best for me is the old man and the sea.


"The fiend behind the fiend behind the fiend"

[Sabocat]

Quote: from Danton on 4:37 pm on June 3, 2003
Never mind the house in the keys,

Get down to the Floridita in old Havana and sip on a Mojito jus like old Papa.

His best for me is the old man and the sea.


"The fiend behind the fiend behind the fiend"



Soon I hope.....very soon.

(Edited by Disgustapated at 12:37 am on June 4, 2003)

[Pete]

I was wondering, how did he die?

[Sabocat]

Double barrel shotgun in the mouth. Ketcham, Idaho. July 2, 1961.

A sad day indeed.

(Edited by Disgustapated at 1:29 am on June 4, 2003)

[Pete]

I thought so.... Whats with writers/artists being depressants/addicts?

[vox]

I thought so.... Whats with writers/artists being depressants/addicts?

Well, Hemingway may have been a drunkard, this is true, but a lot of people are. One must looke more closely at his life, I think, to determine why he chose to commit suicide.

He was, quite obviously, clinically depressed, and he was given shock treatment for that, which he really didn't want. Also, the doctors diagnosed him as being paranoid, but it turns out that he was right. Hem said that the "authorities" were watching him, and they were. The FBI even recorded his calls from the hospital! He supported the socialists during the war, and that earned him an FBI record. The doctors just thought he was nuts.

But, while that's interesting and such, the fact is that Hemingway couldn't write, and he knew he couldn't, and he also knew that his life was not going to get better. "Snows" was based on real life. Hemingway had been in two, as I recall, plane accidents. His body was beaten, and so was his soul.

He saw what lay before him, and he declined.

For me, that's an act of bravery, not cowardice.

vox

[Sabocat]

I agree with vox. I think Hem knew there wasn't going to be anymore great hunts, no more great wars or conflicts to be involved with, and he definitely was blocked.

I think he figured he'd had a good run and went out on his own terms.

[Wenty]

you know hemingways father committed suicide as well

[praxis1966]

I'm a huge Hemingway guy. If you haven't been to Hemingway's house in Key West Florida, I encourage you to make the pilgrimage. It's special. You can almost sense the man in his writing room.I've been there, but more interestingly than that was the fact that my parents used to live in an apartment in the downstairs portion of the building next door. He had all these six toed cats (subsequent generations of them still populate the island) and a rooster who couldn't tell time. My dad said the thing used to go cocka-doodle-doing at 3 am with regularity.

[praxis1966]

(Edited by praxis1966 at 10:26 am on June 27, 2003)

[death b4 dishonour]

I just got into reading A Farewell to Arms. Its a pretty good book.

[Dan Majerle]

vox i don't understand the bit "fact was hemingway couldn't write...". Not to saying you are insulting him but what do you mean i must have misinterpreted.

[Sabocat]

I think vox meant that he couldn't write anymore near the end. It is fairly well known that he was "blocked" for the last few years of his life.

I don't think vox was saying he couldn't write....ever. :wink: